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wasoxygen  ·  3361 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Michael Crichton: Why Speculate?

    an infinite amount of worth/value on a human life

If you are referring to feeding starving kids, I wouldn't say the value is infinite, but it is surely non-zero.

The entire justification for collecting taxes to fund NASA is to pay for benefit X, right? Call X whatever you want, but it also has some non-zero value.

I ask: who enjoys the benefit of X? Who pays for the benefit?

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